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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Honestly this is nothing more than your typical, earnest, overcoming-impossible-odds, rise-to-power biopic. But Idris Elba is quietly compelling as prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela, and the timing couldn't be more fortuitous. Officially sanctioned by the Mandela family, the story is dutiful, reverential and rather straightforward.139 minutes PG-13.

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New Mexico Humanities Council

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and fine-art photographer Miguel Gandert shows his work highlighting his mestizaje heritage, and the fusion and tension of the relationship between Spanish Colonial and Native Cultures of the Americas. Runs through 12/29.